Teaching history with museums : strategies for K-12 social studies
Issued Date
Resource Type
Edition
Second Edition
Language
eng
Text
StillImage
Text
StillImage
No. of Pages/File Size
250
ISBN
978-1-138-24248-7
Alternative Title(s)
Strategies for K-12 social studies
Abstract
"Teaching History with Museums" provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the classroom. Using engaging cases to illustrate accomplished history teaching through museum visits, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators, and museum educators with ideas for successful visits to artifact and display-based museums, historic forts, living history museums, memorials, monuments, and other heritage sites. Each case is constructed to be adapted and tailored in ways that will be applicable to any classroom and encourage students to think deeply about museums as historical accounts and interpretations to be examined, questioned, and discussed.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
PART I: Introduction and Framework for Using Museums to Teach History
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Teaching History with Museums
PART II: Case Studies of Using Museums to Teach History
Chapter 3 - Artifact and Display Based Museums: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Chapter 4 - State History Museums: The Minnesota History Center
Chapter 5 - Historic Forts: The Fort at No. 4 and Fort Ticonderoga
Chapter 6 - Historic House Museums: The Johnson County Historical Society and the Mark Twain House
Chapter 7 - Living History Museums: Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown
Chapter 8 - Memorials & Monuments: The Memorials and Monuments of 9/11
Chapter 9 - Art Museums: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Chapter 10 - Virtual Museums, Mobile Technologies, and Augmented Reality: Blurring Classroom--Museum Boundaries
Appendix A - Top Ten Strategies for Effective Museum Visits
Appendix B - Complete List of Museums Discussed in the Book
Appendix C - Resources
References
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.